How much to hire a #WordPress mentor?

For my day job I'm at a point where today I realized I'm just not grokking this stuff.

Theme stuff is fine but the last two weeks I've been working with #PaidMembershipsPro and now #BuddyPress to try and get a member directory up for our AMS (#PMPro) and I've spent probably $5000 of company time and have very little to show for it.

I think in tomorrow's 1v1 w/ boss I need to say "I'm sorry but I can't do this."